River House Christmas crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Tunnel that Buddy walks through after the sea of swirly twirly gumdrops, en route to New York
  2. 6. the present the Little Drummer Boy ended up giving (playing) to Jesus
  3. 7. even without dramamine, preferable company over the Grinch
  4. 8. Scrooge's long dead partner
  5. 10. the ear that can't hear, for George Bailey (Its a Wonderful Life)
  6. 12. absorbent garment that gave Buddy the Elf his name
  7. 13. type of tree to send your true love, with bird perched within
  8. 16. where Buddy the Elf finds work
  9. 19. number of sizes the Grinch's heart grows at the end of the movie
  10. 21. from Latin word meaning "coming" a pre-Christmas religious season
  11. 23. the fourth food group for elves, according to Buddy
  12. 24. what Ralphie Parker's mother is trying to protect from his Red Ryder Range 200 shot BB gun
  13. 25. traditional german Christmas bread
Down
  1. 1. fossil fuel that gave Frosty sight
  2. 3. feliz ___ a must-sing Spanish christmas carol
  3. 4. number of horses needed to dash thru hills on an open sleigh
  4. 5. widower who believes in Santa after a caribou hit and run in song
  5. 6. the first gift of Christmas in the Polar Express
  6. 8. plant used by norse god to kill another norse god...now for smooching
  7. 9. what Lucy wants instead of toys in Charlie Brown's Christmas (two words)
  8. 11. a Mexican Christmas food tradition made from masa and meat, wrapped in corn husk
  9. 14. less rapid than St. Nick's coursers, in the Christmas Eve poem
  10. 15. merry gentlemen find rest when they let nothing do this
  11. 17. saint's feast day on which the snow was deep and crisp and even, when the Good King looked out
  12. 18. name of mount where the Grinch lives
  13. 20. the language spoken by the original St. Nicholas
  14. 22. the thing the Grinch promised to fix, when stealing Cindy Lou Who's tree